Look at pixelmoon. http://www.x-panded.com/pixeldam/pixelmoon.html

Here's one I'd like to talk about in particular:

http://www.x-panded.com/pixeldam/images/pixelmoonimgs/michel_lux-depot.gif

Look at the building. Notice the meaningless panels. See how they jump right off the building?

Now look at this one:

http://www.x-panded.com/pixeldam/images/pixelmoonimgs/Matriax_moon-base.gif

Look at the lines on the building. The Jigsaw puzzle lines. Look at how they shade them so they look indented into the building.

My question is, how do they learn how to do that? I've scoured the internet, looking for isometric tutorials that explain these things. I've found none. Can someone explain how they learn these shading rules?


Edited by Royall - 14 June 2007 at 5:50pm

It's not hard.  To make the line look like it's poping out, you put your light color over the dark color.  To make it indented, the dark goes over the light.

Like jalonso said, just zoom in on them and you'll see what I'm talking about.

I guess so.
I think that's why PJ has that need zooming feature.  Whenever I see something I like the first thing I want to do is zoom in and see if I can't figure out how they did it.